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Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory
R. Gregory Nokes
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| #192944 in Books | Nokes R Gregory | 2013-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.86 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Breaking Chains||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An easy, informative read.|By Pacerpapa|This is a detailed and very well-documented account of more than a dozen early settlers in the Polk and Benton County areas of Oregon. Its primary focus is on the attitudes and behavior of early settlers toward the negro slaves they brought with them to Oregon on wagon trains. The the personal and political lives of many white and black|About the Author|
R. Gregory Nokes is the author of Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, an Oregonian Pacific Northwest “Top 10” book. He travelled the world as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press and The Oregonian.
When they were brought to Oregon in 1844, Missouri slaves Robin and Polly Holmes and their children were promised freedom in exchange for helping develop their owner’s Willamette Valley farm. However, Nathaniel Ford, an influential settler and legislator, kept them in bondage until 1850, even then refusing to free their children. Holmes took his former master to court and, in the face of enormous odds, won the case in 1853.
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